Quebec Human Rights Tribunal sentenced a patient to pay $9,500 in moral and punitive damages for discriminating against a healthcare worker.

According to the facts reported in the judgment, the complainant, who is of Arabic origin, worked as a nursing assistant in a hospital in the Montreal area. During an exchange with a patient, the patient aggressively asked him to leave, told him to go home and treated him with contempt due to his ethnicity.

The hospital coordinator had to intervene, but the patient refused to apologize and asked to be served by other employees who were not of Arabic origin, which was refused.

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